Your Future Ruined by Literotica?

[Stella_Omega]

Like Hugh Grant did, when he was 'caught' with a drag queen, and said; "So what?"

There was still fallout, but nothing like the fundies wanted there to be...

 

[bronzeage]

Like Hugh Grant did, when he was 'caught' with a drag queen, and said; "So what?"

There was still fallout, but nothing like the fundies wanted there to be...

I think that was Eddy Murphy.

Hugh Grant said, "Sometimes you do a bad thing."

 

[driphoney]

Yeah, read that story, but I'm not sure I feel sorry for her. I think it is disgusting that she was outed by someone she trusted, I abhor that, but she should never apologize for her love of sex. She should have spun the situation to her advantage. She could have spun it with one question to an interviewer, "Do you have a problem with sex?"

"No."

"Then let's move on to more important issues."

Amen, brother!

 

[kromen]

Hell, that'll be my platform.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I've never worried before about being outed. I tell the important people in my life about it, so it's never seemed to be a big deal.
But now I'm in grad school and preparing for a career in non profit work, which will, I hope, eventually put me in a higher up spot in a non profit, and yeah, my lit life could totally bite me in the ass. I guess I've felt relatively "safe" about being here but that article has me wondering.

I suppose it could go either way and may depend somewhat on where you are geographically. Most of the non-profits I come into contact with in my work are very liberal and wouldn't flinch about it. If you're dealing with more religious oriented non-profits, it could be a problem.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

I'm more worried about my boss finding out about my foruming habits (posting from work, mostly ) than I am about him finding out I write sex stories. I may have even mentioned to him that I have written sex stories.

You realize your boss can see everything you access from work, right? Never assume otherwise. They may not have taken the opportunity to look at logs, so consider yourself lucky.

I would lay off the Lit at work and hope all the activity logs cycle out. Serious career advice.

 

[SweetWitch]

I write, therefore I am. I am, therefore I write. Fuck the rest of it.

My mom sells my books and sets up events for me. My sister is secretary of my fan club. My dad displays copies proudly on his coffee table. My uncle, the Southern Baptist Minister is extremely impressed with my ability. The public library in my hometown carries one of my books and soon will have another--and they're expecting me in a couple of weeks to sign books. I'm told it's to be a full media event.

I've been on the radio, talking about how I got started on Literotica and my books are found on Amazon and eXcessica. My real name is not a closely guarded secret--although I don't advertise it due to a few certain freaks out there.

I have no shame in what I do. I'm proud of my work and the friends I've made here. Many of them I know personally and they are welcome in my home any time.

And if anyone has questions about what I do, I answer them honestly. If they don't approve, I pat them on the head and tell them it's their loss.

If I ever lost my mind and ran for public office, I'd run on the Naughty ticket.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

If I ever lost my mind and ran for public office, I'd run on the Naughty ticket.

Can I be your mate... er... running mate?

 

[Belegon]

This isn't my future, it is my past and present.

Not Lit so much, but my published writings have already cost me one job.

Seriously, no bullshit and while I once doubted that was the real cause, I do not any longer. I didn't want to believe it when it happened, but the evidence eventually became too obvious for even my deep-rooted denial.

I am not concealing my writing career in my current job search. I have no desire to repeat that experience, even if it means working at WalMart until I can rebuild my savings and survive solely on my writing income.

 

[KarennaC]

Count on problems with the 'ex.' Anything is grist for the mill.

Good luck to you. I hope your ex isn't a jerk, but it seems like he has a history of it. I hear familiar stories from my pagan friend about difficult exes.

My ex is definitely capable of almost anything, though mostly all he does is blow hot air. Like the threat to take the kids away because I'm vegetarian. He does seem to have mellowed a bit now that he's gotten remarried; he has someone else to focus his bullpuckey on, and they're trying for a kid of their own, which will take more of the pressure off me and my daughters.

Back to the topic of the thread, he does know I write; that was one of his biggest complaints in the marriage. I think I even told him at one point that I'm writing romance now, just not the heat level of the romance. He does know I'm published now, but that it isn't under my real name, and since even his family members who know what I write don't know my pen name, I'm not overly concerned about him finding out what it is.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

You realize your boss can see everything you access from work, right? Never assume otherwise. They may not have taken the opportunity to look at logs, so consider yourself lucky.

I would lay off the Lit at work and hope all the activity logs cycle out. Serious career advice.

It's just my boss and I. there is no "They." And he would have to come to the office to actually install a program onto this computer to see what I was doing from somewhere else. And he almost never comes into the office.

 

[Boota]

I've had no problem with anything I've done on Lit, but I did almost get fired because of my other writing. A guy I worked with wanted to buy a copy of my book, so I brought it to work. He left it on the counter and the boss picked it up. One of my day jobs is working for a church organization. She confiscated the book and we had a big blow up. I let her know she didn't have the right to take it. She could tell me not to bring it into the store, or even fire me if she felt she needed to, but she couldn't keep the book.

How I got around it was to prove that we, a Christian thrift store, had pornography on our shelves. We sell a LOT of books and it's not feasible to expect someone to know what is in every one of them. But I recognize smut when I see the cover. They couldn't very well punish me when they were selling much "worse" on their own shelves.